If we look at the Win32_OperatingSystem class description we will see that there are a number of properties where we can get numeric values returned. These don’t tell us a lot unless we happened to have memorised the table of values. There may be a test later!

Now some of these look like candidates for translation. I am not going to show all possible answers as some of these tables get quite large as you will see when examining the documentation. I’ll give a couple of examples that work for the environments I work in.

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